{"id":294,"date":"2020-01-31T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reliasolve.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2020-01-31T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:09:53","slug":"hourglass-api-example-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/programming-resources\/hourglass-api-example-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hourglass API example library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ReliaSolve\/Hourglass\">Hourglass API repository<\/a> contains the interface definition and example programs to implement an example &#8220;hourglass&#8221; interface. This type of interface has C++ at the lower layer, a thin C dynamic library interface in the middle through which all things pass, and another C++ interface at the upper layer. This approach enables both the library implementation and applications to use C++ while providing the benefits of a separately-build DLL that works reliably in many environments. This implementation also includes a Python interface on top of the C++ interface that is built when SWIG is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hourglass encapsulates experience from building hourglass interfaces for two internal projects; one for a virtual reality interface and one for a security camera interface. It also includes experience from the the design of VRPN, experience from the design of a distributed VR library, and experience passed on from the designer of the C API used at UNC for VR. The design choices and reasons behind them are documented in the README.md file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hourglass API repository contains the interface definition and example programs to implement an example &#8220;hourglass&#8221; interface. This type of interface has C++ at the lower layer, a thin C dynamic library interface in the middle through which all things pass, and another C++ interface at the upper layer. This approach enables both the library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliasolve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}